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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Bedside.
(b) Needle.
(c) Confession.
(d) Wit's End.

2. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?
(a) "The joy in his beating heart."
(b) "The mercy of almightly Heaven."
(c) "The anguish in his inmost soul."
(d) "The malice in Chillingworth's eyes."

3. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?
(a) "Sturdier texture."
(b) "Sanctimonius reputation."
(c) "Populist ire."
(d) "Brillant popularity."

4. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Hibbins.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Wilson.

5. What does Hester fling next to the brook?
(a) Her scarlet letter.
(b) Dimmesdale's Bible.
(c) Her bonnet.
(d) Chillingworth's herbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do most Puritans fast, according to the narrator?

2. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"

3. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?

4. When Dimmesdale exclaims, "O Thou to whom I dare not life mine eyes," whom is he addressing?

5. Hester's work is seen everywhere with the exception of:

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